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Vladimir Nabokov
Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this…
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Takes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.
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Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, ‘to fix once for all the perilous…
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Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he…
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Martin Amis
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed.
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade’s editor…
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Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov’s baker’s dozen.
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to…
Fredson Bowers,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others – with an introduction by John Updike.
Sigi Jottkandt
The Nabokov Effect attends to the 'lettrocalamity' that occurs when literature and cinema collide in Vladimir Nabokov's work. The result is an assault on teleological models, and an opening onto…
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Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss.
Dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz.
An extraordinary collection of Nabokov’s little-known published material from across his life - from student essays to his last interviews
The last major collection of Nabokov’s published material, Think, Write…
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen.
An annotated edition of Lolita . It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel’s overall meaning. It also provides observations on the…
The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.
A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle’s country estate, in a ‘dream-bright’ America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross…
Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart…
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Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady’s twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he’ll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is…
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers…
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he’ll do anything to possess. Is he in love or…
The now classic story of Humbert Humbert’s obsession with the twelve-year-old Lolita.
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Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition
Stephen H. Blackwell
This book explores how Vladimir Nabokov wove his deep love of trees throughout all his works, granting them a powerful role in the development of his most significant themes.
Dr Julie Loison-Charles
Exploring the deeply translational and transnational nature of the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, this book argues that all his work is unified by the permanent presence of three cultures and…
Paul Benedict Grant
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour
Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Online seeks to answer: how do we balance analysis of Lolita's brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling…
Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike.
Nabokov
Interviews, articles, and editorials from the 1960s and 1970s reveal Nabokov’s personal views on a range of subjects, including art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times.
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A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a refuge from everyday life. As he rises to grandmaster, the game of chess…
Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora…
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Linking various minor events, this work switches back-and-forth producing an illusion of impetus.
A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter.
Features a collection of Nabokov’s poems span the decades of his career, from ‘Music’, written in 1914, to the short, playful ‘To Vera’, composed in 1974. this title also includes…
This first novel published by Vladamir Nabokov tells the story of a man, spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by…
Berlin in the late twenties provides the setting for this novel about a woman’s scheme to murder her husband to live on his money with his nephew.
‘Look at the harlequins …Play! Invent the world! Invent reality’. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then…
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine Average Man party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has…
Peter Nabokov
Two Leggings was a legendary Crow warrior who lived in the 19th century. In this beautifully written biography, Peter Nabokov brings his story to life, tracing his rise from a…
When Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel…
Biblioteka REC I MISAO fototipsko izdanje
This, the narrator tells us, is the real life of famous author Sebastian Knight, the inside story. After Knight’s death, his half-brother sets out to penetrate the mystery of the…
Vladimir Nabokov’s brilliant, endlessly inventive imagination and pyrotechnical literary genius continue to astound in the stories The Return of Chorb, The Aurelian, Russian Spoken Here, Cloud, Castle, Lake, Mademoiselle O…
Andrey Nabokov
Nabokov’s first novel is now available in a trade paper edition. Here is the dark tale of a handsome officer who lives next door to his lover’s husband in a…
